This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1844 Excerpt: ...rather inflated, the evacuations had been suppressed for twenty days, and the Urine passed away involuntarily every other day. "With little hope of success I commenced the treatment by water. My prescription was the following t the patient to be placed in an empty bathing vat twice a day, and several buckets of cold ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1844 Excerpt: ...rather inflated, the evacuations had been suppressed for twenty days, and the Urine passed away involuntarily every other day. "With little hope of success I commenced the treatment by water. My prescription was the following t the patient to be placed in an empty bathing vat twice a day, and several buckets of cold water to be thrown over him; after the affusion, to be returned to bed and well covered, a little cold Water to be introduced into his mouth every half hour, and two clysters to be given daily. After this treatment had been pursued for two days, or on the sixtieth day of the disease, the skin felt already moist, and the clysters were discontinued, as there had been several loose stools. "On the third and fourth day, towards the evening, a rather copious peripiration, continuing till the morning, ensued. At its cessation affusion was performed, and the patient wrapped in a wet sheet, in which he passed the night, sleeping occasionally. During the day he slept at times, and gave signs of a desire to make water, and take food, which he had not done before. "About the seventh day the action of the skin continued during the night and day, with a slight interval only towards three o'clock in the afternoon, at which time the patient was washed with water at 59 of Fah., and the wet sheets and affusion were remitted. From this period convalescence became very perceptible, although its progress was but slow. On the tenth day of treatment, and the sixty-eighth day of the disease, the parents heard the first sound of the child's voice, which had been lost for seven weeks: they had, in fact, despaired of ever again hearing it. He regained his speech perfectly, with all his other faculties. On the eighty-first day he made the first attempt to w...
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